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Pryor presents us with a film that says, "Sure, I messed up my life with coke and booze, but it's all because my mother was a prostitute, my father was a brute, we lived in a brothel, and the bullies down the block beat...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: Richard Pryor, Your Story is Calling | 5/9/1986 | See Source »

Remember: Saturday Night Live had become the brightest, brashest success on television, the show to see, and be seen at. Chevy Chase had already made his mark there, and left for Hollywood. John Belushi had brought his brute comic force to Animal House, which pulled down some $150 million at the box office, and he and his buddy Dan Aykroyd were spending off-time starring in Steven Spielberg's home-front destruction derby 1941. Gilda Radner was the country's favorite comedy Kewpie, and Bill Murray, a shambling declension of goofiness, was hoving into view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Flying and Crashing in Mig Alley Saturday Night | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

...numerous members of the SAC. They all agree that the SAC and the institute had no power to issue an ultimatum concerning the structure of the magazine or its editorial content. Such action is a jarring break with the past. It lacks all legitimacy, except the legitimacy that accompanies brute strength...

Author: By Alexander Kaplen, | Title: Political Review Should Be Independent | 2/26/1986 | See Source »

...they had seen. But the moment was irrevocable. Over and over, the bright extinction played on the television screen, almost ghoulishly repeated until it had sunk into the collective memory. And there it will abide, abetted by the weird metaphysics of videotape, which permits the endless repetition of a brute finality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Nation Mourns: CHALLENGER heroes | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

Harvard, on the other hand, prefers to play a freewheeling style with emphasis on team speed instead of brute force. The Crimson likes to control the puck with short, crisp passes rather than trying to barrage the opposing goaltender...

Author: By Neil Mooney, | Title: Beanpot '86: A Boston | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

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